Proctor Packet
For Online Assessments
This document is intended for ATI Customers’ use only and
should not be shared with any other individual without the prior
written approval of Assessment Technologies Institute®, LLC
Welcome to ATI
In order to maintain the integrity of products
created by Assessment Technologies Institute®,
LLC, (ATI), this manual details the procedures
and responsibilities associated with the use of
ATI’s examinations. It is required that the
individual administering an ATI assessment,
hereinafter referred to as the proctor, read and
understand all of the information provided prior
to test administration. As a proctor you must do
your part to ensure that the test scores of the
students reflect an ethical and fair test
administration. More specifically, the
responsibilities of the proctor include those
detailed in the following pages.
System specifications are outlined in this guide.
To ensure that your testing experience is
successful, we ask that your institution verify
that your system meets minimum specifications
prior to the administration of the assessment.
Call Assessment Technologies Institute®, LLC
(ATI) 1.800.667.7531 if you have any questions
or need assistance. ATI office hours are 7:00
am – 6:00 pm CST, Monday through Friday.
Section 1 – Prior to Testing
Testing Location
When selecting a location for administration of
the examination, proctors and school personnel
should be mindful of what constitutes an
appropriate testing environment. Proctors
should make every effort to minimize
distractions and interruptions during the test
administration.
In order to proctor a test, you must have an
account on www.atitesting.com and that
account must be set up as a Proctor, Instructor
or Director. Proctors can only administer
assessments, while instructors can run reports
on students at their institution and Directors
can create reports across institutions.
Browser
Confirm the browser on the computers to be
used for testing or monitoring assessments.
ATI’s system is most efficient with Internet
Explorer 5.5 or higher. The following browsers
are supported by ATI:
Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
Netscape 6.0 +
Mozilla
Firefox
Ensure the browser has the following
enabled/installed:
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per session and persistent cookies
JavaScript
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Your popup blocker must allow popups
from *.atitesting.com
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Network
Does your network use a proxy or caching
server? If so, set it to allow (not cache) traffic
from our website, or enter our domain
www.atitesting.com as an exception in the
settings.
What kind of bandwidth is available in the lab?
Are the computers on a different subnet than
other student public use computers? Insufficient
bandwidth will cause potentially serious
problems with system response.
Workstations
What kind of workstations is being used? Older
Win98 machines are potential problems and a
demo prior to testing should be conducted.
Do you use content filtering of any kind? If so,
set up ATI’s site to be an exception, as the
nursing content can potentially trigger such
software.
For questions about workstation or network
configuration, contact ATI at 1.866.428.4837 or
email techsupport@atitesting.com prior to
testing.
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Section 1 – Obtaining Proctor Status
Log on to www.atitesting.com and click on the
Create New Account link.
The Register New User page requires the fields
in blue be completed. After completing this
page press Enter. The additional information is
voluntary and used only for ATI demographic
research to ensure that our assessments are
not biased for or against any specific group.
All user information is stored and will not need
to be re-entered upon subsequent log in.
After logging in (or completing the User
Information page) you may be presented with a
Security Alert that notifies you that you are
transitioning from the encrypted portion of the
site (used for all personal information) to the
unencrypted portion of the site. Click on Yes to
continue.
For security reasons all new accounts are
created as student accounts. You must call ATI
and asked to be designated a proctor; this must
be completed before you administer the
assessment. ATI personnel will have to contact
your institution and verify your status at the
institution. Please allow 24 hours for this
communication.
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Section 2 – The Day of the Test
Examinee Admittance to Testing
It is important the proctor identify the
prospective examinee as the individual who is
to be taking the test. Proper identification
should be provided as evidence if the students
are not known to the proctor. If pre-registration
of students is required by the institution,
examinees should be checked against a roster
provided by the school as they enter the testing
room or prior to testing. If pre-registration is
not required, students should be identified after
logging in to the ATI testing engine. The proctor
may use the student names from the proctor
screen to confirm identities. Identification does
not have to be a driver’s license, but should
include:
• A current photograph
• The applicant’s signature
• A permanent address
Examples of appropriate identification include a
passport, military ID, government ID card,
driver’s license, or alien residency (green) card.
During the administration of the test, the
proctor should:
• Frequently move throughout the room
and monitor the students.
• NOT assist students in choosing
responses to test questions.
• Remain in the room at all times during
the test administration.
• Only allow one student at a time to leave
the room for a bathroom break.
Using an “honor system” for proctoring
where the proctor is not present in the
room during testing is unacceptable.
Initiating and Monitoring an Assessment
Initiating and Monitoring an Assessment
Log on www.atitesting.com by entering your
Username and Password in the Sign-In box.
Test Administration
During administration of the test, examinees
should only be allowed to have the following:
9 Writing utensil
9 Calculator (if allowed for the particular
test being given; calculator should not
have graphing capability)
9 Scratch paper (must be provided by the
proctor and collected and destroyed by
the proctor following the test)
Students may NOT have any of the following
items during the test administration:
¾ Food, drink, or candy*
¾ Textbooks or reference books of any
kind
¾ Sunglasses, hats, or a hood
¾ Music (CD players, MP3 players, iPods,
etc.)
¾ Communication devices including cell
phones, pagers, PDA, etc.
*If an examinee requires food for medical
reasons, the proctor should inspect the food
to ensure that there is nothing unusual
about the food or packaging.
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Select Monitor Assessment located on the left
side of the screen.
Student Sign In
Instruct test takers to log on to
www.atitesting.com and Sign In.
Enter the Assessment ID and Assessment
Password issued by ATI.
Instruct your examinees to enter their
Username and a personal password. The
user name should be something students will
remember. The user name may contain the @
symbol or a dot (.) – students might want to
use their email address. The personal password
cannot be longer than 16 characters.
Once you have entered the Assessment ID
and Password, the following screen will
appear.
If the examinee has completed a paper/pencil
assessment, he/she will already be in the
system with his/her social security number
(without dashes) as the username and a
personal password consisting of the last four
digits of his/her social security number.
New users will be asked to confirm they are
creating a new account. Click on Yes.
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After logging in (or completing the User
Information page) the examinee may be
presented with a Security Alert that alerts
the user that he/she is transitioning from
the encrypted portion of the site (used for
all personal information) to the
unencrypted portion of the site. Click on
Yes to continue.
Forgotten Username/Password
If an examinee has an existing account but
cannot remember his/her username and/or
password, have him/her first click on the “Lost
your password” button on the Home page. This
will access a wizard that helps the student
access their existing account.
The new user will then be directed to a User
Information page. This page requires the
fields in blue to be completed. The other
information is voluntary and used only for ATI
demographic research to ensure that our
assessments are not biased for or against any
specific group. After completing this page press
Enter.
All user information is stored and will not need
to be reentered upon subsequent log in.
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If the examinee is still having trouble logging in
but has an existing account, click on the
Manage Students button on the proctor page or
choose Management Tools – Manage Students
from the Main Menu. Proctors will be presented
with a screen like the one below that provides a
way to search for the examinee, view the
examinee’s username, and set a temporary
password by clicking the Allow Access button. If
the examinee’s account has not yet been
converted to a username, the account will
display with the text “Use Social Security
Number – without dashes” in the username
field. That examinee should be instructed to
enter their ssn in the username field. The
proctor can issue a temporary password by
clicking on Allow Access next to the examinee’s
name. The password will be valid for 20 minutes
and the examinee will be prompted to reset the
password as part of the login process.
Once he/she has logged in successfully, the
examinee should click on Take an Assessment
located on the left of the screen.
The examinee should enter the Assessment ID
and select Begin Assessment. No password is
required for test takers on proctored
assessments. (For online practice assessments
the system will prompt for a password.) The
examinee will see an instructional page prior to
the start of the assessment.
If the proctor has Instructor or Director status,
the Manage Students screen will show a
“Display Password” button to allow the proctor
to display the examinee’s current password
instead of use a temporary password.
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Monitoring the Assessment
The examinees’ names will appear on the
Monitor Assessment page as each examinee
logs on. Select the Approve box to the left of
each name and click on the Refresh/Submit
button to begin testing. After the examinee has
been approved there will be a short delay
before the assessment begins. The examinee
will be prompted by a Start button.
The Proctor will view the examinees’ progress in
the Student Status section.
Ignore the incident. Data is not recorded if the
Ignore button is selected. All warnings on the
proctor screen have a corresponding warning
message on the examinee’s workstation.
The Pause button allows an examinee to pause
testing to take a brief break. An examinee may
take multiple breaks, but the total rest period
(when allowed) may not exceed five minutes.
The time will be documented on the examinee’s
screen and the Proctor’s screen. Assessments
such as TEAS™ and the Self-Assessment that
contain more than one section do not have
pause time built into the assessment.
If an examinee attempts to click outside of the
testing window, the action will appear in the
Warning section. This feature is designed to
prevent examinees from accessing other
information during the assessment. As Proctor,
you have the option to Log the incident which
issues the examinee a warning, or you can
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The Stopped Assessments section registers
examinees whose assessments have been
stopped. The answers already submitted will be
saved and the time will stop progressing. Select
Close or Abandon ONLY if the examinee
will not be finishing the assessment as this
option will lock that assessment. If you have
closed or abandoned an assessment in error
please contact the ATI office. Closing an
assessment will score the assessment and
include the test results in the class test
statistics even if the examinee has not finished
the assessment. Abandoning the assessment
will not include scores in the statistics and the
examinee will not receive any score.
NOTE: When the designated time for the
assessment has expired, the assessment will
automatically close and calculate the score for
the examinee.
As examinees complete the assessment their
names will appear in a section called
Completed Assessments. This section lists
the students who have completed the test and
their percentage correct score. The proctor can
click on the student name to see a complete
individual score report. Once all examinees
have finished the assessment, the Proctor
should click the Stop Monitoring button. This
completes the monitoring process.
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Closing an Assessment
Sign Off
On the faculty home page there is a link to the
left of the screen marked Close Assessment.
Once all examinees have completed the
assessment, click on this tab to close the
assessment.
The Log Out link appears in the upper righthand corner of your screen. To log out of the
site, click on this button.
If you need to re-assess a test taker on a
particular assessment, contact ATI to receive a
retake assessment ID and password. The
system will not allow retakes under the original
assessment number. Be sure to tell the office
that the ID is needed for a retake.
A list of assessments the proctor is associated
with will be listed on the next page. Enable the
box to the left of the assessment name that you
wish to close, and click on Close.
The system will close and calculate group scores
for examinees associated with this assessment
ID.
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Testing Irregularities
In the event that a testing irregularity occurs, a
proctor should be aware of the appropriate
action to be taken. A testing irregularity or
suspected irregularity must be reported within
24 hours of the test administration. If the
irregularity is substantial, students may have to
be retested. A Testing Irregularity form is
provided in the back of this guide. In order to
provide clarity, a list of potential test
irregularities has been provided. Examples of
testing irregularities include, but are not limited
to, the following:
• Any occurrence resulting in students
being unsupervised with access to secure
test materials
• Giving students access to or instruction
related to the concepts measured by the
tests at any time before or during the
test administration
• Paraphrasing, omitting, revising, or
rewriting the script or any directions to
be given with the test
• Suspected cheating
• Illness or medical emergencies during
the test administration
• Tampering with student response
records
• Fire alarm or any alert requiring
evacuation of examinees during the test
• Any student disruption, e.g. excessive
coughing
• Problems with room temperature,
excessive heat or extreme cool
• An examinee finishing an assessment too
quickly
In the event of an emergency, such as a fire
alarm, you can select all students and click on
the Stop Assessments checkbox for each
student and then click on the Refresh/Submit
Now button. If you don’t have time, call our
office at 1.800.667.7531 and give us the
assessment ID and we will stop the assessment
for you. This will prevent time from being taken
from the students testing.
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Section 3 – Awareness of Test Misconduct
Keep in mind that your primary role as a
proctor is to conduct a fair test administration.
Another way in which the proctor can ensure
fair testing is to be aware of the methods
students may use to gain an unfair advantage
on the test. If you suspect a student of
cheating, do not confront the individual. Please
document the information, notify the
appropriate faculty, and file a testing
irregularity report within 24 hours with ATI.
To raise awareness, a list of possible cheating
or suspicious behaviors is listed. These cheating
behaviors may be observed in a computer
administered test, a paper and pencil test, or
both.
In order to copy from another student’s paper,
students may attempt to do the following:
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Sit next to or behind the person they
want to cheat from.
Try to sit in a V-formation, where the
person to be cheated from sits at the
head of the V and the cheaters fan out
behind the individual.
Drop a paper on the floor so someone
else can look at it.
Approach the proctor to ask a question
and look at other students’ tests on the
way to the front of the room.
Use a small mirror to check their eyes or
adjust contact lenses while really using it
to view another student’s test.
Students may attempt to use “cheat sheets” or
“crib sheets.” Potential uses of these include the
following:
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Writing answers/questions on surfaces of
the table, desks, or chairs in the testing
room.
Copying answers/questions on food or
drink labels (e.g. on the inside of a soda
or water bottle label or chewing gum
wrapper).
Using body parts to document answers.
Students may write on their hands,
arms, legs, ankles, etc.
Students may also attach written
answers to their clothing (e.g. inside a
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sock, skirt, shirt, shoes, hat) or on the
underside of a bandage.
Using the surface of the inside of a
calculator case is another popular option
for taping cheat sheets.
Examples of inappropriate uses of technology
for the purpose of cheating include:
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Using calculators that can hold text,
formulas, or pictures.
Setting a phone to vibrate and receiving
text messages with assistance for
answering the questions.
Beaming information from one PDA to
another.
Using the screen on MP3 players to
record notes for the test under the guise
of song titles.
Wearing a headset while seemingly
listening to music, when actually
listening to recorded answers.
Using camera phones or other small
cameras to capture pictures of test
questions for later distribution.
Ways that students may attempt to assist one
another include:
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Asking the proctor questions to provide
enough of a distraction so other students
can cheat, take another student’s test
book, or take another student’s answer
sheet.
Sitting next to the window while
someone outside provides the answers
to test questions.
Having someone take the test in place of
the student.
Leaving the testing room for a bathroom
break and either checking
textbooks/answers or receiving
assistance from an outside person.
Communicating answers to others
through foot tapping, pencil tapping,
food consumption (e.g. red candy = A,
blue candy = B, etc), touching body
parts (e.g., eye = A, nose = B, mouth =
C, ear = D). (Countless variations of
this approach exist)
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Appendix A
Report of Testing Irregularity
(Must be filed within 24 hours of the test administration)
Test Proctor Name:
School Name:
Test Name:
Test Date:
Please provide a detailed description of the incident:
(Attach pertinent documentation or further description if necessary.)
If specific students were involved, please provide a list of the student’s names and
identification numbers (if available).
As the test proctor for the test described above, I feel that I have witnessed a testing
irregularity during a test administration.
Signature of Test Proctor: ___________________________________________
Date:________________________
One copy of this form must be retained by the test proctor. A copy should be faxed immediately to Assessment
Technologies Institute. ATI will conduct an investigation of the irregularity and examine any suspect test results.
If any irregularity has affected test results, the school will be notified by ATI. ATI has the right to:
(a) Declare test results non-valid;
(b) Designate student scores as “demo” and remove them from the primary database.
(c) Take any other action deemed necessary by ATI to resolve the issue and/or prevent future incidents.
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Appendix B
Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS™)
This 4-part assessment consists of subtests for
Reading, Mathematics, Science, and English (in
that order only) with a total testing time of 3
hours and 29 minutes.
Each subtest has a separate time limit:
Subtest
Reading
Mathematics
Science
English
Time
Allocated
50 minutes
56 minutes
38 minutes
65 minutes
# of
Questions
40
45
30
55
If you are not administering all four TEAS™
subtests, advise ATI of the subtests you choose
to administer when the assessment is ordered.
Calculators are NOT permitted for this
assessment
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Appendix C
Other Nursing Assessments
Assessment Name
Number of
Questions
Critical Thinking
40
Number of
Minutes
Allotted for
Testing
40
Fundamentals
60
60
Adult Medical Surgical
90
90
Maternal Newborn
60
60
Nursing Care of Children
60
60
Mental Health
60
60
Pharmacology
60
60
Leadership
60
60
Community Health
60
60
Management
60
60
Nutrition
60
60
180
180
Comprehensive Predictor
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